Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Avedon

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.

Richard Avedon

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.

Richard Avedon

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Umberto Eco

If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.

Robert Capa

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

Robert Capa

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

Robert Capa

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

Robert Capa

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

Robert Capa

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

Richard Russo

I can be glib and truthful all at once.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?

P. J. O'Rourke

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

Rob Lowe

The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.

Sylvia Plath

I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful.

Lydia M. Child

Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals!

Jim Garrison

I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful.

Thomas Jefferson

The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Sen. Gallegos

I think I can, but to be truthful with you, I don't know until I come to that point. There's going to be times when it's going to be difficult.

Romy Schneider

You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now.

Truman Capote

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

Sappho

What cannot be said will be wept.

Richard M. Nixon

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

William Carey

The less said about me the better.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm like Muhammed Ali. When he said he would knock someone out in the fourth round, he did it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns?

Jon Bon Jovi

Elton John said to me, "I have all the negatives."

Luc de Clapiers

It is easier to say new things than to reconcile those which have already been said.